Mel's Books Have Won Awards!

The Au Pairs is an ALA Quick Pick, a YALSA Top Ten nominee and on the PSLA Fiction List. Skinny-Dipping is an ALA Quick Pick Nominee, and Crazy Hot is a New York Public Library Book for the Teenage and was named a best teen series book by TeenReads.com. The series is published in twelve countries and has been optioned for a major motion picture by Warner Brothers, with Drew Barrymore’s Flower Films producing.

Blue Bloods is an ALA Top Ten Quick Pick, a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, a TAYSHAS pick, an Alabama Public Library “Best Fang” nominee, a Cybils nominee and merited a starred review from Booklist. Masquerade is an ALA Quick Pick and a New York Public Library Book for the Teenage. The series has been optioned for television by Blueprint Entertainment.

Fresh off the Boat is an ALA Quick Pick nominee, a New York Public Library Book for the Teenage and a Bank Street Bookstore Best Children’s Book and a California Readers California Collection.

Angels on Sunset Boulevard was named Best Debut Series by TeenReads.com.

Her latest series is the seventh-grade social-climbing saga The Ashleys.